Today's a public holiday, so after the mandatory Instant, I may well disappear. Beloved may whisk me off to parts unknown and adventures unpredictable.
About all I can rely on is a piscine type dinner.
I've procrastinated a lot already. I should get a wriggle on so y'all get content, today.
My car is ready from its rehabilitation, today. This simple O-ring replacement is going to cost over a grand. Ouch.
Like... I have that much squirrelled away, but it's putting a dent in my finances for sure. Like... half of my luxury expenses fund dent.
Oof.
Also on the menu this morrow is: Unfucking the wreckage of the three days where I was not around to prevent it, a money run to pay for same, the usual tales to tell, an uber
Read more »So I've kept forgetting to make sure a blog entry is actually published. Chalk that big mistake up to travel weariness.
As Bullwinkle J. Moose said, "This time for sure!"
I'm back on to work, today, resuming the routine that keeps my equilibrium. I'm not overtly invested in working on my novel. If I write something, then I'm ahead for next week. If nothing happens - nothing happens.
I'm headed for the most tempting time of the year for Keto people -
Read more »Today promises to be full of the sads. Sads are definitely allowed and should not be held back on.
I will sorely miss her.
I will miss discovering new things with her, sharing obsessions with her, and occasionally plotting to take over the world with her because those who had it already were clearly doing it wrong.
I will miss her tales of the Yatla Panthers - one of the Aussie East Coast's less well-known cryptids. As well as allegedly a parent
Read more »So here's the PLN:
1) Take my pills [done!]
2) Write this blog [almost there]
3) Gather all my shit into one place and start the long-arse journey to Tullagawupwup [not there at all]
I've packed most of my stuff. I've got clothes, pills, the basic tech I need to be mobile and keep y'all up with my nonsense. I made certain I have that one trinket I've been obsessing about.
...I have my hopes that the Vestigial Arsehole - aka the
Read more »I got some last-minute stuff to get, including some leggings to protect my shins during the autumn-winterish chill of the more southern climes, especially when it's close to beddie-byes time.
I need a power board, because nerds like us tend to use/abuse/need them as soon as they come into the house. Maybe a smallish extension cord in case the only spare plug is located under the bed or whatever.
I know I have a room with a microwave, so I
Read more »I accomplished my 3K for this week, so I have today and tomorrow relatively free to be sure my assorted shit is together.
I could lay in supplies of road snacks. I could pack a suitcase. Or I could procrastinate literally everything and leave it until tomorrow.
Place your bets, folks.
I'm at least going to try and pack so I know what I need to get.
This whole thing is doing my head in.
Read more »I wasn't able to 'push' my novel's output this week. I've barely been able to line up what I'm taking.
Procrastination is happening because I don't want my friends' death to be real. I don't want things to be final. As if putting off the entire journey off is somehow going to make my friend come back and tell me that this was some kind of bad joke.
...I wanted to believe that when my Grandfather died when I was about ten.
Read more »I forgot to do my Patreon stuff, yesterday. I'm more than likely to skip out on that again today.
Today, my car is going in for a service because we suspect that it is leaking coolant. It needs an annual or semi-annual top-up of the stuff and that, apparently, is not normal.
So the PLN is to take it to the repair place today and hope they can squeeze my little car in and see if they can spot a leak. If
Read more »So. Next week, there's going to be three days when I'm both on the road and emotionally compromised. I'm not going to be writing my novel on those days. I might not contribute to it for that entire week.
I might not be doing my daily stories. I can try, but... they just might not happen. Not for three days.
Rest assured that I am still alive and doing my best.
Daily blogs will still happen because 3AM is apparently my jam.
Read more »Yesterday, Free Fiction Daily up and decided to make me their feature article and put the one from the day before above "the fold". Just. Two of my stories right there on the attention-grabbing part of the page. No scrolling down, just -boom- there.
One day, I might just have more notice than that, but it's my current high point. I love it.
I am having so much fun with the D&D game and I want to share it, but
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I did also get to see Shazam and I am rather proud of the representation they had in there. It's managed to dodge a whole bunch of tropes I despise like a bunny on a bender. There are large volumes of ManBoy humour and it freaking works.
I had worried that the disabled kid
Read more »The crew managed to wipe out most of the goblins in town. Garsh is not a happy Bugbear. However, the two survivors are the two that he saved -one way or another- in earlier sessions. We'll see how that plays out.
That's not the funny part.
The funny part is when another party turns up. They're profit-motive folks and don't trust a party consisting of: Bugbear, Tortle, Dwarf, and Changeling [though Changelings are pretty rare on the ground and nobody knows she's
Read more »I got my Crit Happens shirt, I got a new dice bag, I got my tablet charged, I got my batteries... I got Mayhem home with the vomits at home because antibiotics kick your arse these days.
Last day of term, and I don't even know if Chaos is going today.
If the kids are at home, I'm still taking a journey out to be sure of victuals for the evening.
That's what passes for a PLN.
I'm gonna be riding the
Read more »My Friendo's funeral is happening soon. Not too soon, just... soon. There's probably going to be three days of radio silence or a reasonable impersonation thereof. Frankly, I'll count myself lucky if I can keep the Instants going out.
So much to do in-between.
My car is having coolant issues, so I have to do something about that. The Doctor's office gave me the number for Q-Tax, and I have to do something about that... I have to pack...
At least now,
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